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- Ahmadian, Afshin, et al.
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Method for amplification
- 2005
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Patent (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- The invention refers to a method for multiplex amplification of at least one specific nucleic acid locus, comprising the steps of: providing at least one oligonucleotide probe pair that is designed so that the first and second probe of the pair anneal to a specific nucleic acid locus on a target molecule, in which pair the first probe has an extendable 3'-end, and a second probe has a 5'-end that is directly or indirectly labelled with a phosphate group; providing a target molecule comprising at least one specific nucleic acid locus; allowing the probe pair to anneal to the target molecule; allowing the 3'-end of the first probe to extend by influence of polymerase by adding a set of three different dNTPs; ligating the 3'-end of the extended first probe to the 5'-end of the second probe. Hereby, a method is provided which allows a high specificity for simultaneous amplification of several loci. Further, the invention involves a kit for use in the method of the invention.
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- Ahmed, Zakir, et al.
(author)
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Blind mechanism for the joint estimation of frequency offset and phase offset for QAM modulated signals
- 2010
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Patent (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- A mechanism for jointly correcting carrier phase and carrier frequency errors in a demodulated signal. A computer system may receive samples of a baseband input signal (resulting from QAM demodulation). The computer system may compute values of a cost function J over a grid in a 2D angle-frequency space. A cost function value J(theta,omega) is computed for each point (theta,omega) in the grid by (a) applying a phase adjustment of angle theta and a frequency adjustment of frequency omega to the input signal; (b) performing one or more iterations of the K-means algorithm on the samples of the adjusted signal; (c) generated a sum on each K-means cluster; and (d) adding the sums. The point (thetae,omegae) in the 2D angle-frequency space that minimizes the cost function J serves an estimate for the carrier phase error and carrier frequency error.; The estimated errors may be used to correct the input signal.
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- Ahmed, Zakir, et al.
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Estimation of Sample Clock Frequency Offset Using Error Vector Magnitude
- 2011
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Patent (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- A low complexity system and method for operating a receiver in order to estimate an offset between the actual sample clock rate 1/TS' of a receiver and an intended sample clock rate 1/TS. The receiver captures samples of a received baseband signal at the rate 1/TS', operates on the captured samples to generate an estimate for the clock rate offset, and fractionally resamples the captured samples using the clock rate offset. The resampled data represents an estimate of baseband symbols transmitted by the transmitter. The action of operating on the captured samples involves computing an error vector signal and then estimating the clock rate offset using the error vector signal. The error vector signal may be computed in different ways depending on whether or not carrier frequency offset and carrier phase offset are assumed to be present in the received baseband signal.
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- Ahmed, Zakir, et al.
(author)
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Maximizing the Viterbi Winning Path Metric to Estimate Carrier Frequency and Phase Offsets in Continuous Phase Modulated Signals
- 2012
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Patent (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- A system and method for estimating carrier frequency offset Δf and carrier phase offset φ0 inherent in a received CPM signal. Samples of a continuous phase modulated (CPM) signal are received. A maximum of an objective function J is determined over a two-dimensional region parameterized by frequency offset v and phase offset w. The coordinates vmax and wmax of a maximizing point in the region represent estimates of the carrier frequency offset Δf and the carrier phase offset φ0. To evaluate the objective function J at a point (v, w), apply a frequency shift of amount −v and a phase shift of amount −w to the received samples to obtain modified samples, and perform Viterbi demodulation on the modified samples to obtain a winning path metric value at a final time. The winning path metric value is the objective function value J(v, w).
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- Alberius, Peter Carl Anders, et al.
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Cosmetic compositions comprising dye-loaded particles.
- 2007
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Patent (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- According to the invention, a cosmetic compn. is provided comprising: (a) amorphous particles, each amorphous particle comprising a homogeneous distribution of one or more dyes encapsulated by an amorphous, siliceous encapsulating agent, wherein the amorphous particle comprises from 3% to 20%, preferably 5% to 15%, more preferably 8% to 12% dye, by wt. of the particle; (b) a cosmetically acceptable carrier. Silica loaded with tartrazine and other dyes are prepd. Cosmetic compns. such as lipsticks and mascaras are prepd. contg. encapsulated dyes, siloxanes and other ingredients. [on SciFinder(R)]
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- Alberius, Peter Carl Anders, et al.
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Dye-loaded particles.
- 2007
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Patent (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Amorphous particles are provided comprising a homogeneous distribution of one or more dyes encapsulated by an amorphous, siliceous encapsulating agent, wherein the amorphous particle comprises from 3% to 20% dye, by wt. of the particle. [on SciFinder(R)]
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- Alberius, Peter Carl Anders, et al.
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Spray-drying process for the manufacture of dye-loaded particles.
- 2007
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Patent (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- According to a first aspect of the invention, a process is provided for the prepn. of amorphous particles comprising a homogeneous distribution of one or more dyes encapsulated by an amorphous, siliceous encapsulating agent, the process comprising: (a) providing a precursor of the encapsulating agent in liq. form; (b) providing the one or more dyes in liq. form; (c) mixing the liq. forms; (d) spraying the mixt. to form droplets comprising the one or more dyes and encapsulating agent; and (e) heating the droplets to form the particles comprising the one or more dyes encapsulated by the siliceous encapsulating agent; wherein at least one of the liq. forms provided is aq. and the or each aq. liq. form is acidic. According to a second aspect of the invention, encapsulated dyes made by the process of the first aspect of the invention are provided. [on SciFinder(R)]
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- Alexander, Paul D., et al.
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Filter structure for iterative signal processing
- 2002
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Patent (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- The present invention relates to improved multiple access communications. In one form, the invention relates to an improved signal processing method and apparatus for an iterative method of determining the reception of a signal in a multi user packet based wireless OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) communication system. In other forms the present invention provides recursive filtering for joint iterative decoding in a variety of systems and functions such as linear multiple access channel decoders, iterative equalisation, iterative joint channel estimation and detection/decoding, iterative space-time processing, iterative multi user interference cancellation and iterative demodulation.; In one particular form the present invention provides an iterative decoding circuit for a wireless multiuser communications receiver comprising a first signal processing means for receiving at least one received signal, said first signal processing means comprising at least two linear iterative filters such that the first linear iterative filter provides an estimate of a selected received signal to an estimated signal output and a second linear iterative filter provides estimates of at least one other received signal, delayed by one iteration cycle, to an input of said first linear iterative filter, a second signal processing means for receiving the estimated signal output of the first linear iterative filter and providing a further received signal estimate to the input of the first signal processing means in a succeeding iteration cycle of the decoding circuit.
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- Alexander, Paul D., et al.
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Filter structure for iterative signal processing
- 2002
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Patent (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- The invention is an iterative signal processing arrangement having one or more pairs of first and second signal processing components. These pairs are in iterative configuration with each of the first signal processing components having as its input one or more received signals dependent upon one or more transmitted signals. For each said signal processing component pair the output of said first signal processing component is an estimate of a characteristic of a selected transmitted signal based on the current and one or more previous input signals received by said first signal processing component. This estimate is input to said corresponding second signal processing component which provides a further estimate of said selected transmitted signal. The outputs of all said second components of respective pairs are input to their corresponding first components in a succeeding iteration cycle.
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